The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-05-19
CURRENT COMMENT.

CURRENT COMMENT. j
Mas. MARY MAPEs DODGE is graceful
and well dressed She talks with great The
vivacity. 49,, .s
SIN JOHN MACDONALD is to be given The
. scat in tho English House Of Com s. onssr
mons and win retire from Canadian -
politics. that Il
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MRs. MARTHA J. LAMB. editor Of the ncean'
magazine Of American History" il ~
petite, slender and dark. She is chatty tax is
and vivacious talker. retan
Drill
the cit
MISS FLORENCE GRoFF ID the nrss with q
American woman who has been admit gas da
ted to the School Of Oriental Languages | A y
(Arabic and Persian) in Paris. opium
custom
shipm
MRs DAVID G. CRoLY. s.Jennie IN.
june" at present editor Of '.Godey's Londe
Lady's Book" ofPhiladelphia, is slight Aceid
and dark. She is vivacious talker Of the
and has IN engaging and expansive Joh,
smile. comm
10 Tez
rou,e. n A,corr row and then prohil
A1O01S~ - -" b now
sakes from her desk an old-fashioned dtera,
portofolio and exhibits quantity Of Tho
sketches after Turner made by her ar. autho
list sister, the original of Amy in Little With VII =
Women" who married and died abroad. .re:
--- dinan
DR. BLEYER, who has been lectur- The
ing in New York in favor Of capital sestin
punishment by electricity, has made a guest. n;.u
scientific computation, showing that by mara.
..;s .o..,a ..,, rx. i. 49,. are al
in the two hundreth part Of second. ,..-
MISS ELLEN CALLAHAN of Sierra Val. there
ley, New, is > successful stock-grower, other,
and is considered an eligible match fol recov
. middle-aged man with q capacity fol- Inc
real work. She can harness . team, .e1
break m wild horses. run !. mower, feed ssssZ To11
the stock, or do anykind of work on . Sns Il
ranch. Of COZ
The
NINE. RIsroRI, who is now stayingin Rush
Rome, is occupying her leisure BY Asask s.s,a
writing her memoirs, dating from her onlaa
hrst appearance on the stage. She iuu ins = y
was then mere infant, being but three .ruu.
months old. Her nurse carried her in. Bupre
and her debut was. it is said, singularly rom
successful ds.sh dgs1f
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS daughter, di.s. disea,
Elizabeth interests herself decidedly in A.
the working-girls, as distinguished count
from the young ladies Of leisure, and oown .s.l
has banded those OF Staten Island into Rush,
. Working -Women's Guild with read. ofnsI %ae.,
ing-rooms. library, and pleasant even. the st
ing recreations, which arc showing Tht
themselves OF decided practical good. Anor
stone
Mwr OrrrrpAcu widow ~ tha grouI
AE. OsE1NDACn' "1uo" - 10 q whS
opera bouffe composer. is dead. She howe
was an Irish-SpanisA woman, . sister hospi
Of Mr.. Robert Mitchell, editor Of the Tw
BonApartist journal Le Pays. During signe
her husbands lifetime she was popu- mnS; mS
lar leader in Partisan society, but Of tn
s1ser ms deasn sno Avoo III s'1ics lo1f0 ting
mont 90 W
truth
GEORGE w. CHnDs, the Philadelphia anyt
Ledger publisher has . superb wine Snst; SSnct;
cellar, but he never touches wines oi ~,
intoxicants Of any kind. He doesn't in Il
know the taste Of them. Apollinaris Mex
water, which is served up in a superb ton.
silver aagon, is his favorite tipple. He soGy, sasy
never uses even tea or coffee. As to dam'
his eating. wheated grits and oatmeal nst nart
porridge are his favorite dishes. M Mall It
-- The
COUNTESS ssBRETHLEN-MAuRER,a q Hun 6t, asw
ssrian lady. has become the benefac- vale
tress of the district Of Nagy-Sellyk. in tiones
Transylvania the place Of her residence. oaef1
She employs many huadred poor peas =.
ant women and children for the manu- .s.o,
featuring Of those gorgeous woolen day,
sso'S "naoaa 40 SA0 PAA~o " Henr
rian home industry. cousi
- i join. !:
The Hindoo Patriot states thatseveral OF e
novels have lately been written by Hin. who
doc ladies in Bengal, some Of which are noe,
Of considerable merit. The latest is one the
entitled ..Satitva Saroja," and its drop
author is Mrs. Mahamay -Dutt. It il a~f, .Ssf
recommended As "a picture of quiet Mess
domestic Life in Bengal. but slightly RS with
moved from reality in . few acenes-" Do5n 1fn
unex
LUCY LARcoM and Whittier have . iaay
rood deal Of liking for each others So
cisty, and it happens now and then n.
that the Quaker poet leaves his retreat Gar,
st Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass. where I'd
he spends more of his time of late years rece1
than at Amesbury, to make one of his Ac
rare trips to the village, meeting Miss will
Laroom at the house Of . common Th
friend. ''ns
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GEN. A. r. LAwToN, who has num
bsen appointed Minister to Austria,